Delicate Botanical Expressions card with video & free project sheet

August 31, 2026

Before I share today’s card I want to remind you that today is the last day to take advantage of the Designer Paper and Card stock sale. Go here to shop and grab the deals on paper.

Here’s the pretty card I shared last week on video. We made them at my August Card Clubs. Sadly it was the last Club I’ll hold in Minot. Our house has an offer in pending and I’ll have just one last event this Thursday there. My home studio has so many wonderful memories from my friends/customers. It’s hard to say goodbye!

I’m holding my Holiday Catalog open house September 3rd from 3:30-6 pm. If you’re local please come to see me (and the displays, food and deals!)

It features the new Botanical Expressions die (the white leaves die-cut) seen here. It’s a single die that can be used in multiple ways. I especially love the cut lines in the dies.
*Tip: rub waxed paper over the cutting side of your dies every few cuts; it releases the card stock easily then.

Here I adhered it over dark green DSP and added Barely Blush DSP above and below it. There are so many pretty details here!

The floral DSP is called Bloom Boutique Specialty paper and can be seen here. It’s filled with gold foil highlights.

This card is a landscape gatefold card. The Peaceful Pine layer is adhered to only the left side of the card base.
My greetings are from the Scalloped Blooms and Framed Violets sets. The inside flowers are from the Flowering Meadow stamp set.

That pretty scalloped greeting die is also from the Scalloped Blooms bundle seen here.

I created a free project sheet for this card. Click here to print or download it. It has measurements, supplies, photos and directions.

I also shared the ‘how to’ video below. I hope you watch!

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Get ideas from these Team Card Swaps

July 12, 2024

Our Flowerbug's Team swap for June featured new color 'duo' cards. We could use any new color and add a current color to it.

This first card is so cool! I love how Jackie added the sentiment in a vellum window!

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She used the Layering Leaves stamp set and the coordinating Bough punch. Her colors include Summer Splash with Basic Beige, Black & White. The squares were die-cut from the Stylish Shapes dies. just lovely!

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Next is Candy's sweet card; featuring the Hearts & Hugs bundle seen here.

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It's a book binding fun fold and her colors include Pretty in Pink, Basic Beige with Balmy Blue. She used the Spotlight on Nature dies and the Dotted Circles 3D embossing folder (unavailable until August).

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Next is a pretty card made by Ginny who used the new Poised Peony stamp set.

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Her beautiful color combo include Pretty in Pink with Lost Lagoon & White. Simple & lovely.

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Next is a bright combo of colors reflected in her flower bouquet. Paula featured the Country Flowers bundle here.

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Her colors include Petunia Pop, Summer Splash with White & Crumb Cake. Beautiful coloring on the bouquet here!

The embossing folder is the Eyelet 3D and the large circle is from the Spotlight on Nature dies.

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Remember that for every $50 you spend in July you receive a $5 coupon to redeem in August on another order!

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Get more cards in the Gorgeous Expressions of Kindness card kit

July 11, 2024

This stunning Expressions of Kindness card kit from our Kit Collection was released last month. I made time to play with it a few days ago and it's absolutely gorgeous!

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I liked the cards so well I wanted to make more than the 8 cards in the kit. It's fun to figure out how to extend the beautiful prints on the cards and envelopes. I decided to keep it simple and add extra card bases and leave the envelopes intact.

See this kit here online:

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This first set of cards are almost exactly as the kit suggested except I saved the gold foil leaves for a different card. There was enough ribbon to add a few knots on each of the above cards and still have enough for the rest of the 8 cards seen below.

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Below are all three individual cards I made.

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For the following two cards I cut the full printed card bases in half. I added 4 white card bases for the left card below. I felt the printed card with the gold foil accents was pretty enough for the ribbon & greeting image.

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For the card on the right above I cut down the card front to 4" X 5 1/4" and layered it onto 4 Blackberry Bliss card bases as seen below. This is where I added the gold foil leaves with the greeting.

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You can see this beautiful kit here. It's $23 and includes the 8 cards & envelopes, a stamp set, Blackberry Bliss ink spot, gems, White ribbon and adhesive.

Here's the stamp set included in this kit. The flower head fits on the purple flowers to add detail.

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There are two more new kits released in July. Both are card kits – one geared for kids and the other a pretty floral kit.

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See all of our kits in the Kit Collection here.

Remember that for every $50 you spend in July you receive a $5 coupon to redeem in August on another order!

Bonus Days are a Win Win!!

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A Fun Fold card with the Changing Leaves hybrid embossing folder; video too!

July 10, 2024

Here's the last card in the group of three I shared in last week's live video. I featured the Changing Leaves bundle from the Online Extras.

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My colors include Basic Beige and Mossy Meadow with a tiny bit of white and Pretty Peacock added. That beautiful circle die-cut is the largest in the Spotlight on Nature dies seen here.

The Changing Leaves bundle includes the stamp set, dies and hybrid embossing folder. You might wonder what a 'hybrid' embossing folder is? It's a folder that has a coordinating die that works 'inside' the folder. It cuts and embosses at the same time. Genius! Confused on how this works? Watch the video here to see.

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I cut out all three leaves from the large leaf die at once and each card featured a different leaf. I thought I was smart to design my swap cards this way and save time too.

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Two cards feature a diagonal design but they're all quite different. Each one includes Mossy Meadow & Basic Beige cardstock though.

See the previous two blog posts for the free project sheets. Or click here to see all of my project sheets!

Watch the video below to see how the Changing Leaves bundle with the Hybrid embossing folder works. You'll also see multiple techniques too!

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